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Aug 3, 2013 at 2:00 AM

COSMIC POMMY VEGA — Pamela Twining performs a set of the poems of Janine Pommy Vega accompanied by music by the Cosmic Legends as part of the Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival, 7:30 p.m. at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum on Tinker Street in Woodstock. $15, $8 WAAM Members. Call 679-2940.

Aug. 3COSMIC POMMY VEGA — Pamela Twining performs a set of the poems of Janine Pommy Vega accompanied by music by the Cosmic Legends as part of the Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival, 7:30 p.m. at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum on Tinker Street in Woodstock. $15, $8 WAAM Members. Call 679-2940.

PORT HOMES AND GARDENS — The Port Jervis Council for the Arts presents its second annual Historic Homes & Garden Tour from 1 to 4 p.m. with maps available at the Tristate Chamber of Commerce on Broome Street, Upfront Exhibition Space on Jersey Avenue or ERA Meloi Realty on East Main Street in Port Jervis. The featured properties this year are the Campbell, Smith, Quinn and Onofry residences. $20. Go to portjervisarts.org.

GREY TOWERS WOOD FESTIVAL — "Goods From the Woods" is the theme of this year's Festival of Wood from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford. Wood crafts, exhibits, children's activities, chainsaw carvings, live woodland wildlife, films, tree pruning demonstrations, music created with wood. Rain or shine. Free. 570-296-9630.greytowers.org.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE — Learn traditional English country dances, done to traditional tunes played by local musicians, at 7:30 p.m. at the Reformed Church, Salem Road, Port Ewen. 679-8587. hudsonvalleydances.org.

LUMBERJACK BREAKFAST — "My Father Was a Lumberjack" screened continuously during breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Callicoon Center Fire Departmnet. Learn the history of logging through family footage made in Sullivan County in the 1930s.

RAILROADS OF SULLIVAN COUNTY — Film screening, 1-4 p.m., Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main St., Hurleyville. Take a self-guided tour of current exhibits. Staff on hand to answer questions. Call 434-8044 or go to sullivancountyhistory.org.